lotuspuppy wrote:
I constantly have nightmares about this. Typically, the nightmare starts where my college comes and takes away my degree. They then send me back to high school, and I am subjected to the horrors of that place.
I am not sure why I am worried about my degree being taken away. I am going to grad school now, but these dreams started even before I graduated college. I know of no reason my college would be angry with me, for I do not have a balance with them, and I have never knowingly plagiarized or done anything with others' material that I knew to be unethical. Could they still take my degree away, with or without cause?
I think that a degree can be taken away if it was obtained by fraud or other illegal methods.
In the early to mid 1970s, a computer science graduate student working on his masters at a major university did some kind of project as part of the requirements he needed for graduation. It consisted of a software package to do some fairly complex task. A couple of years later, someone needed to run the package and so they went and got the deck of cards and started loading the deck. it turned out that it wouldn't even compile. The code was complete nonsense.
What he had done was formatted everything on cards the way it needed to be printed out and then ran the deck of cards through a program that did no more than copy the cards to the printer.
The university that granted him the degree considered revoking his degree, but they didn't want people to know just how easily they had been fooled by such an amateur attempt at fraud.